Full Description
College Sports and Institutional Values in Competition interrogates the relationship between athletics and higher education, exploring how college athletics departments reflect many characteristics of their institutions and are also susceptible to the same challenges in delivering on their mission. Chapters cover the historical contexts and background of campus athletics, issues and institutional tensions over market pressures, the spectacle of college athletics and how this spectacle influences athlete experiences, and the ways in which leaders are navigating these issues. Through stories of higher education that focus on the ways athletic departments leverage their institutional values, this book encourages readers to examine the purpose, mission, and academic values of their institutions, and to evaluate the role of their athletic programs, to improve outcomes and experiences on campus for students and student-athletes alike.
Contents
Foreword by James Soto Antony
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: College Sports and Institutional Values
Chapter 2: 'Going To A D1 School'
Chapter 3: Towns, Colleges, and Their Sports
Chapter 4: The Front Porch, Campus Mission and The Market
Chapter 5: Championships, Spectacle, and Subsidy
Chapter 6: Professionalized Pursuits, Educational Impacts
Chapter 7: Is Separate Still Equal?
Chapter 8: The Right Kind of Activism
Chapter 9: 'Low Profile, Decentralized, and Incremental'
Chapter 10: Change is Already Here
